Brain 🧠 Injuries 🤕

It has been over 10 1/2 years now. Many of my reader friends didn't know me then, don't really know my story now.

God has been so gracious. I should have died that day, twice over. I was not expected to survive the first night, even on full life support.

After God brought me through the first night, I was given maybe up to three days. I could not sit up. I could not roll my body. 

When I passed that first three days mark, doctors got me off life support and out of ICU by 5 1/2 days. But it was expected that I couldn't survive the week.

At 10 days my husband FOUGHT to get me a bed in a rehab hospital because the regular hospital said I might live for as long as a month or two, but would be a vegetable the whole time. God gave me an amazing Christian hospitalist and we became dear friends, still in touch to this day. .After nearly 2 months in the hospital, when I went home in a wheelchair to a hospital bed in our living room with 24/7 care, it was medically conceivable that I could possibly live a year, maybe even two.

Over the months and years, I relearned eating, seeing, walking with a walker, then a cane, toileting, communication, and so much more. Initially I had 1-3 medical appointments per day.

By the time I was down to just a few appointments per week, they thought I might survive for as long as 3-5 years.

This was over 10 1/2 years ago. Insurance stopped paying for therapy years ago. (I still push myself physically for several hours of home therapy per week and continue to make physical, mental, and emotional gains.) Doctors long-ago stopped speculating on my life expectancy. 

Look for InfertilityMom on YouTube and see June 15th's "1 Peter 5" video to see how far God has carried me.


 


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